10 AUGUST 1889, Page 26

In Routledge's "Pocket Library" we have Sir Walter Scott's Marmion

; and in "The Canterbury Poets" (Walter Scott) a second volume of The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by John Bradshaw, M.A. This second volume contains "Paradise Regained" and the Minor Poems (English).—Many readers will welcome Selected Poems and Songs of Charles Mackay (Whittaker and Co.), and also a pleasant volume of extracts, under the title of Flowers and Fruit from the Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, arranged by Abbie H. Fairfield.—We may mention at the same time The Perfect Life: in Twelve Discourses. By William Ellery Chameing Edited, with an Introduction, by his nephew, W. H. Channing. (George Bell and Sons.)